15 Unknown Facts about Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bomb Attacks

During World War II on 6th August 1945, an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion finished 90% of the city and killed 80,000 people; ten thousands more died later due to radiation exposure. After just three days a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, which killed estimated 40,000 people. Here are 15 unknown facts about Hiroshima and Nagasaki bomb attacks.

#15 Radioactivity

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The USA actually denied that atomic bombs caused any lingering radioactivity whatsoever, calling such claims as Japanese propaganda.